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Microsoft is giving free software to startups around the world to encourage them to develop products that span the Web, PCs and phones, the company said today.

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Ballmer suggested that developers would be able to use the .NET Framework to build applications for the cloud server, browser and client, and said Windows Cloud would make it possible to deliver "click-to-run" software more efficiently than was possible with "most software from yesteryear".

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Apple is looking like what Microsoft was 10 years ago—a Bigfoot that squeezes smaller competitors.

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It's been known for some time that Iowa was full of corn, pigs, soybeans, etc, but now it's starting to become known for data centers. More interestingly, cloud computing data centers. With cheap electricity (of which 8% of that is wind generated) and lots of land, both Google and Microsoft are building large data centers in the state. Google is buliding out their large DC in Council Bluffs, and Microsoft is putting their's somewhere in the Des Moines area, although we don't know where yet, but my guess will be somewhere south or west. My assumption here will be that MSFT will buy enough land so that they can build their own wind farm, putting their new datacenter on their own power grid. Google (my assumption here again) is doing the same thing. They purchased additional acres south of Council Bluffs, and my guess is to build a wind farm to power their server farm.

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This “next-gen” facility will be different than the traditional data center, supposedly using the “container” model they have been working on. Basically a container is a semi-trailer (or shipping container that you see on barges and trains). Within this container are 1,000 - 2,000 servers. These containers are, literally, trailers that can be hauled in via trucks to scale the system. Microsoft has built a similar data center in Chicago that has two floors. Currently, the entire first floor is made up of 150-200 of these containers.

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"The entire first floor of Chicago is going to be containers," Microsoft director of data center services Michael Manos said this morning in his keynote at Data Center World in Las Vegas. "This represents our first container data center. The containers are going to be dropped off and plugged into network cabling and power." The second floor of the immense facility will be a traditional raised-floor data center, Manos said.

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The Legislature passed measures creating tax incentives aimed at luring the computer giant to Iowa, to build new power generating facilities and improve the state's communications network. Those efforts paid off with Microsoft's decision, said Senate Majority Leader Michael Gronstal, D-Council Bluffs.

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Microsoft is creating 75 full-time jobs paying an average annual salary of up to $70,000 at that center.

To receive the Iowa tax breaks signed Feb. 28 by Culver, Microsoft must invest at least $200 million in the state.

Last year the state approved a measure that helped persuade Google to build a $600 million data center near Council Bluffs. That package exempted electricity purchases and capital investments from the state's sales tax.

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Microsoft Corp. has selected West Des Moines as the site of its new $500 million data center.

The center will be built on a 42-acre parcel at the intersection of Booneville Road and Xavier Place and will house large-scale World Wide Web services for Microsoft's online services business. It will employ 50 to 75 people, with an average salary $70,000.

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"Gov. Chet Culver welcomed Microsoft to Iowa today, with the announcement that the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant will build a $500 million data center in West Des Moines."

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Microsoft Corp., weary of being cast as a stodgy oldster by Apple Inc.'s advertising, is turning for help to Jerry Seinfeld.

The software giant's new $300 million advertising campaign, devised by a newly hired ad agency, has been closely guarded. But Mr. Seinfeld will be one of the key celebrity pitchmen, say people close to the situation. He will appear with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in ads and receive about $10 million for the work, they say.

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Microsoft is expected to announced tomorrow that it will bring its new data center to West Des Moines, sources familiar with the project say. The size of the project and employment are unavailable.

Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft said in July that it would bring a data center to the Des Moines area. The West Des Moines project is expected to be similar in size to a data center in San Antonio, Texas.

Microsoft said last year it’s building a $550 million data farm that will employ about 75 high-tech workers. The workers will earn an average of $70,000 annually.

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Microsoft has kicked off a research project to create software that will take over when it retires Windows.

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Microsoft's Surface Sphere operates a lot like the original Surface, utilizing a projector surrounded by a ring of IR cameras, which is then covered by a semi-opaque globe. The IR cameras detect when the beams are being blocked, and transmits it as contac

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Although we don't have all the pieces yet nor any sort of ship dates, what we can see here is that Microsoft does indeed have a cloud computing strategy and it's huge. They're not just moving their businesses services from the data center to the cloud - t

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Microsoft on Monday morning announced upcoming support for movie rental service Netflix as part of its system software update for the Xbox 360 (see live blog here). Console owners who are also Netflix subscribers will be able to take advantage of Netflix'

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Here’s the single, simple lesson. Microsoft’s battle for Yahoo is a case of asymmetrical competition in reverse: Microsoft is competing on yesterday’s terms. Instead of using new DNA to revolutionize deeply troubled media and technology industries,

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"We've got a pretty noisy competitor out there," Brooks said of Apple whose "I'm a Mac... and I'm a PC," commercials criticize Windows Vista. "You know it. I know it. It's caused some impact. We're going to start countering it. They tell us it's the iWay

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The state agreed to provide sales and use tax exemptions on purchases of computers, equipment and electricity necessary for use in a Web portal business with an investment of at least $200 million in Iowa.

The technology equipment inside the building als

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DES MOINES, Iowa - Microsoft Corp. confirmed plans Tuesday to build a data center in the Des Moines area, a move that comes about four months after the state approved a package of tax breaks designed to lure the company.

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